Author Archives: Scott Pitman and Michael Pill

Surveyor John A. “Jack” Hammer III, survey manager at Massachusetts Port Authority, recently shared with us a California case that introduces new elements into the historic rule that easements are automatically extinguished if the dominant and servient tenements merge into ...

Legislation governing land use restrictions and covenants in Massachusetts (G.L.c. 184, §§23 and 26-30) was characterized by one of its authors — the late Norman Byrnes — as “anti-restriction” because it severely limits their duration and enforceability.

The Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code, G.L.c. 190B, and Uniform Trust Code, G.L.c. 203E, are now fully in effect. In the course of updating Volumes 28, 28A and 28B “Massachusetts Practice: Real Estate Law with Forms,” we discovered several items of ...